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Why is Number 1, 1950 also called Lavender Mist?
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American artist Jackson Pollock dribbling sand on a painting while working in his studio in East Hampton, New York.
The painting Number 1, 1950 by American artist Jackson Pollock is famously known as Lavender Mist due to a suggestion from his friend, the art critic Clement Greenberg.12
Greenberg proposed the title to capture the painting's atmospheric and airy quality. Interestingly, the title is purely evocative rather than descriptive, as no lavender paint was actually used in the work. The composition is instead created using a complex layering of white, blue, yellow, gray, umber, rosy pink, and black enamel paints.12